Re: digitizer probe and software

Speaking of software...

I just got done testing the probe software that came with the unit.

It works GREAT! Took about 30 minutes to digitize an area 3.25" square x .5
inches high.

Then I ran the conversion program. That worked well too...but it wasn't to
apparent. After looking under the file name it saved the file in I found
the file was 1.2+ MB in size. Apparently the conversion program will always
send the converted .dxf file to the same place, so you have to be sure to
rename it after converting.

I then opened the file in Rhino just to see what it looked like. That step
worked well too, so I could have easily enlarged or shrunk the image.

Next thing I tried was opening it with the Vector Demo pgm to see if it
would generate a gcode for machining. That turned out to be real simple.
Had the gcode in less than two minutes! One thing I have noticed is that
the gcode doesn't put in and feed rates or spindle speeds. Maybe the
program is capable of that as well. If so, I haven't found out how to do
that yet. In the meantime, it's pretty easy to add a few lines of code.

Smoke